Vespa
A Hungarian film about a 12-year-old gypsy Lali, who lives in extreme poverty with his mother in a rural Romany community, wins a chocolate bar whilst playing cards that contains a prize: a scooter (which is not other than a ET4)
In order to collect it, he has to go to Budapest and decides to travel alone, also hoping to catch up with his father, whom he hasn’t seen for years. But the journey isn’t as straightforward as he imagines, from friendly encounters to his confrontation with a Hungarian society that is swift to destroy people’s dreams, particularly those of gypsies.
Il Segno di venere
‘The Sign of Venus’ starring Sophia Loren is an Italian comedy by Dino Risi. Two cousins, one from the North, the other from the South, Agnes and Cesira are living together in Rome. Agnes (Loren) is the southern beauty who attracts the attention of male suitors everywhere she goes. The older and plainer cousin Cesira, visits a fortune who tells her that she is entering ‘the sign of Venus’ and that it is the perfect time to find love. From then on she is convinced that every man she meets, whether he displays interest in her or not, is her soul mate.
Audrey Hepburn is a royal princess out to see Rome on her own. Gregory Peck is a reporter who takes her on a tour of Rome, although she doesn’t know who he is. The Princess gets into the swing of things and abandons her stuffy royal ways and through their adventures, they gradually fall in love. A trite and impossibly syrupy romance but probably the most famous of all appearances by a Vespa in a film. Hepburn won an Oscar for her role as Anya. This year the 27th of August marks the 60th anniversary of the release of the film and its premier in New York.
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